i buy two nice workwear things and become saturated with 15 dipshit dude brand identities
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
I miss the workwear/big&tall clothing store that used to be here. Now it's all hipster shops that have flannel shirts and axe sharpening services
― mh, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
I wound up buying two things from Taylor Stitch last year and they were good (a flannel and a sweater), would buy from them again.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:18 (two years ago) link
try not to let their recently acquired fashionability ruin intrinsically good and useful things for you. fashions pass on to other things, but intrinsic value won't.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 10 February 2022 04:28 (two years ago) link
I promise you are not prepared for Tucker's latest montage pic.twitter.com/8tdvYTW2cn— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) April 16, 2022
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
most of you have probably already seen this, or seen reference to it in a little box on the side of your screen as you were scrolling somewhere else.
my question is, what is this?!
https://i.imgur.com/qag6FFh.png
it's a central image in the clip - is that supposed to be a guy receiving some sort of laser upgrade to his genitals? or is he supposed to be fucking the concept of computers?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:22 (two years ago) link
and more importantly, where can i take a free test to check to see if i could benefit from genital enhancement?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
Ball Tanning
We also now know what’s going on with the guy on the rock exposing his private parts to a wash of red light. He was tanning his balls. Carlson endorsed the practice in the special as one of several ways men can return themselves to testosterone-fueled dominance, which the special argues is necessary for society to “reestablish order” after collapse..
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 April 2022 21:44 (two years ago) link
a Swanson heir private school educated coastal fop making 10 mil a year to tell the decent folk in the heartland that masculinity is on the endangered list is just the absolute funniest shit to me
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
That's not real, is it?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:07 (two years ago) link
which thing? because holy shit, i'll believe pretty much anything these days
― Karl Malone, Monday, 18 April 2022 22:14 (two years ago) link
The ball tanning? It even has a rad name: "bromeopathic therapy"
Putting the 'bro' back in bromeopathy
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 April 2022 22:17 (two years ago) link
The promo clip. That's gotta be fake.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link
No, pretty sure it's real
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 April 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link
One of my friends got his taint scrubbed at a Korean spa. He still talks about it.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
dudes rock
― frogbs, Monday, 18 April 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
yeah, that's a real clip. that's the most watched tv news guy. it's fucking crazy. there are all these people out there who watch this guy who tells them to tan their balls
― Karl Malone, Monday, 18 April 2022 22:26 (two years ago) link
Well, Trump likes to rock some "YMCA" out on the stump, this is just a campier extension of that vibe
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 18 April 2022 22:32 (two years ago) link
A manly ship, full of manly men
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
Maybe hovering your balls over a heating element until they're the color and texture of an NFL football feels good! There's only one way to know for sure. (You first.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 18 April 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
Shailene Woodley already trademarked genital tanning, dude’s just a copycat.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 18 April 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
yeah this exposing your genitals to the sun or w/e is pretty old now, all the women’s “health” weirdos went through it and I would guess it’s now trickled through the yoga men and athletes married to “health” people to the beard oil set all the way to the macho gun men set and now to the boring conservative assholes
― mh, Monday, 18 April 2022 23:22 (two years ago) link
the journey of a raindrop, of tanning your balls
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 18 April 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
xp the GOOP to GOP pipeline
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 18 April 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link
Freikörperkultur
Not intrinsically fascist, but a fellow traveler for a long time.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 19 April 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link
i cannot speak 4 ballz but one thing i will state with absolute conviction is that sunning yr gooch feels 1000% nice, loathsome preppy fartsniffing grifter otm
― Toxoplasmosis Jones (cat), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:10 (two years ago) link
naturism / nudism was a good idea, gotta hand it to em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
Yeah but the sun is 100% free, I'm sure Tucks is somehow profiting off the red light balls ray
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
Good piece by Jared Yates Sexton about Tucker, ball-sunning, and the larger issues.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
just a thought, but i can't imagine the sun (and air) being 100% free for much longer. i'm not sure how it's lasted this long without someone or something systematically taking a cut
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
this is why we have to solar charge our genitals now, while there’s still time!
― Toxoplasmosis Jones (cat), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:30 (two years ago) link
i didn't even think about that
i am going to cut out the middle man of Big Ball Tans and just press my genitalia up against the south-facing window
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
Bronze your balls with this one weird trick
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link
i imagine tanning the balls and then testing for testosterone, shortly afterward
a muffled "fuck YEAH!" is heard from a bathroom down the hall
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:37 (two years ago) link
i think i might have the boys over this weekend and tan our balls together, watch some jack reacher
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:38 (two years ago) link
Paint your asses blue and watch Vikings
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
Just clicked on this thread so sorry so late but, legit lol at:
the GOOP to GOP pipeline
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, April 18, 2022 11:59 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
there’s a bizarre pipeline from “this seems vaguely forbidden but it feels good!” to “this is knowledge made esoteric by the establishment” that is tiresome
like idk dudes maybe there are reasons. sun your region if you want, just don’t get skin cancer. kind of wish a lot of them would get into auto-erotic asphyxiation to own the libs and be bad at it
― mh, Thursday, 21 April 2022 04:22 (two years ago) link
to own the conservatives, i will keep my balls cold, shriveled, and damp, hidden away from the light. those are the traditional values for me
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 21 April 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link
I’m certainly not going to ask, but I do wonder what goes through the brains of my parents when they watch this insane shit. They were always super conservative, but at least in the 80s-90s they could at least recognize that 98% of televangelists were con artists (carve-out for the unimpeachable Billy Graham, which tbh might have been the greatest grifts of all). And to me this is just an updated, (somewhat) secularized, and admittedly a much better produced media experience. I’m guessing 25 years of the Fox brain liquifier and advanced age has made them much softer targets.
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 21 April 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
not that my 73 yo dad is going to tan his balls, but they probably don’t blink and perhaps even nod along gravely when this horseshit come blaring out of the teevee screen
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Thursday, 21 April 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
It's just another manifestation of the hardening of tribal divisions. Liberals and conservatives both use insider language. Media opportunists like Tucker Carlson happily elect themselves as the interpreters to the conservative tribe of what liberals mean when they say things like "testosterone poisoning" or "white privilege", which always happens to be the most scurrilous possible interpretation, like "all men are craven criminals" or "they thirst to drink the blood of white people".
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
Many conservatives have gotten the impression that liberals believe there is something faintly disreputable about being white, cis, straight, and male. The more of those boxes you check, the more you are expected to "check your privilege". Whether true or not, that makes it pretty easy to score points by unapologetically embracing those attributes.
― o. nate, Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:52 (two years ago) link
It's well past the point of "they think I'm faintly disreputable for being a straight white man and I resent that". Much of the rhetoric now is that liberals are pure evil, servants of Satan, lying serpents who want to turn us all into slaves of the state and practice perversions on our children.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
Well, there's probably a larger segment that agrees with the first statement and a smaller segment that agrees with the second. Trump was a master of dropping enough hints to keep the fringe fired up but not enough to offend the moderates whose votes he needed to keep.
― o. nate, Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
Trump was a master of dropping enough hints to keep the fringe fired up but not enough to offend the moderates whose votes he needed to keep.
Considering the popular vote margins by which he lost, I don't think this is true.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
Well, 47% of the popular vote is still a lot of moderates, I would submit. There aren't that many wackos, even in the US.
― o. nate, Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
I would say the majority of people who voted for him just kind of shrugged or wrote off the more absurd things
Winning elections is more about reminding consistent votes to show up, and getting as many types of people who don't regularly vote fired up about something to get them to the polls. The former group just ignores a fair amount of those theatrics, or justifies their vote because they're loyal to a party
― mh, Thursday, 21 April 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
There's a Christian conference "for men" in Missouri and it's just as cringe as you'd imagine. Tickets for the "Stronger Men's Conference" are $119 and Josh Hawley is one of the guest speakers. pic.twitter.com/VtQCUCo3e5— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) April 30, 2022
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 April 2022 22:49 (two years ago) link
righteous gemstones is real
― mh, Sunday, 1 May 2022 03:10 (two years ago) link